IAR Senior Fellow, Yuen Pau Woo named leader of Independent senators

B.C.’s Yuen Pau Woo, one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first picks for the Senate has been named leader of the growing bloc of Independent, soon to be Senate’s largest bloc.

Prior to joining the Senate, Woo was a senior fellow in public policy at the Asian Institute of Research at the University of British Columbia, and is the former president of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.